5:1 以色列家阿，要听我为你们所作的哀歌。

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

 

5:2 以色列民（原文是处女）跌倒，不得再起，躺在地上，无人搀扶。

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

 

5:3 主耶和华如此说，以色列家的城，发出一千兵的，只剩一百，发出一百的，只剩十个。

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

 

5:4 耶和华向以色列家如此说，你们要寻求我，就必存活。

For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

 

5:5 不要往伯特利寻求，不要进入吉甲，不要过到别是巴。因为吉甲必被掳掠，伯特利也必归于无有。

But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

 

5:6 要寻求耶和华，就必存活。免得他在约瑟家像火发出，在伯特利焚烧，无人扑灭。

Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

 

5:7 你们这使公平变为茵？？，将公义丢弃于地的，

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

 

5:8 要寻求那造昴星和叁星，使死荫变为晨光，使白日变为黑夜，命海水来浇在地上的，（耶和华是他的名）

Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

 

5:9 他使力强的忽遭灭亡，以致保障遭遇毁坏。

That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

 

5:10 你们怨恨那在城门口责备人的，憎恶那说正直话的。

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

 

5:11 你们践踏贫民，向他们勒索麦子。你们用凿过的石头建造房屋，却不得住在其内，栽种美好的葡萄园，却不得喝所出的酒。

Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

 

5:12 我知道你们的罪过何等多，你们的罪恶何等大。你们苦待义人，收受贿赂，在城门口屈枉穷乏人。

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

 

5:13 所以通达人见这样的时势，必静默不言。因为时势真恶。

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

 

5:14 你们要求善，不要求恶，就必存活。这样，耶和华万军之神，必照你们所说的，与你们同在。

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

 

5:15 要恶恶好善，在城门口秉公行义。或者耶和华万军之神，向约瑟的馀民施恩。

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

 

5:16 主耶和华万军之神如此说，在一切宽阔处必有哀号的声音。在各街市上必有人说，哀哉，哀哉。又必叫农夫来哭号，叫善唱哀歌的来举哀。

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

 

5:17 在各葡萄园，必有哀号的声音。因为我必从你中间经过。这是耶和华说的。

And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

 

5:18 想望耶和华日子来到的有祸了。你们为何想望耶和华的日子呢。那日黑暗没有光明，

Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

 

5:19 景况好像人躲避狮子又遇见熊。或是进房屋以手靠墙，就被蛇咬。

As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

 

5:20 耶和华的日子，不是黑暗没有光明吗。不是幽暗毫无光辉吗。

Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

 

5:21 我厌恶你们的节期，也不喜悦你们的严肃会。

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

 

5:22 你们虽然向我献燔祭，和素祭，我却不悦纳。也不顾你们用肥畜献的平安祭。

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

 

5:23 要使你们歌唱的声音远离我。因为我不听你们弹琴的响声。

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

 

5:24 惟愿公平如大水滚滚，使公义如江河滔滔。

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

 

5:25 以色列家阿，你们在旷野四十年，岂是将祭物和供物献给我呢。

Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

 

5:26 你们抬着为自己所造之摩洛的帐幕，和偶像的龛，并你们的神星。

But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

 

5:27 所以我要把你们掳到大马士革以外。这是耶和华，名为万军之神说的。

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.